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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
By , AlterNet DrugReporter: Dr. James Ketchum tested a potent form of synthetic marijuana on soldiers to develop a secret weapon in the '60s. Now he's telling the tale.
By , RollingStone.com Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Election season will be packed with horserace media distractions, but our economic situation is becoming a matter of life and death.
By , Of America ForeignPolicy: As Obama prepares for his world tour, we must prepare to ask him the tough questions about imperialism and the U.S. global military machine.
By , The Nation ForeignPolicy: Readers of Fidel Castro's 'My Life' will hear all about the Cuban Revolution, but no apologies for its suppression of dissent.
By , Ode Sitting in an anechoic (soundless) chamber, I realized silence isn't golden; it's creepy.
By Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith, The Nation Rights and Liberties: Why we can't let the Bush Administration get away with its crimes.
Friday, July 18th, 2008
By , AlterNet Water: In California there were 8,000 lightning strikes in one event, and that was months before fire season. There is more of that in store across the West.
By , AlterNet From Bush's oil hoax to the New Yorker's sorry attempt at satire, our Zeitgeist list tracks the progressive issues of the week.
By , The Progressive Rights and Liberties: The ACLU reports that agents spent 288 hours monitoring private organizing meetings, public gatherings and events held in several churches.
By , Sirens Magazine Reproductive Justice and Gender: In the '60s, miniskirts were positive, powerful examples of female sexuality. Overexposed starlets like Paris and Britney have tarnished that image.
By , TheNation.com Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: We are witnessing a momentous event -- the great deflation of Wall Street -- and it is far from over.
By , Health Beat Health and Wellness: Doctors are getting fed up with private insurers. Here's a look at what out-of-pocket costs could look like for patients.
By , Washington Post Writers Group We plan our own pensions and assemble our own cheap furniture. I pray the Internet ad for a do-it-yourself eye surgery kit is a hoax.
By , AlterNet Democracy and Elections: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs rejects a request by 19 secretaries of state to allow voter registration drives on VA facilities.
By J. Gerald Hebert, Susan Gershon, Campaign Legal Center Blog Democracy and Elections: As insiders ponder redrawing the political map, voting-rights lawyers say the process needs less secrecy and more public input.
By Howard Zinn, Boston Globe War on Iraq: We should be asking the candidates: Is our war in Afghanistan ending terrorism, or provoking it? And is not war itself terrorism?
By Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation War on Iraq: The U.S. is currently spending between $55 and $66 billion a year on intelligence. So why can't we find Osama bin Laden?
By Shawna Robins, Huffington Post Health and Wellness: Riddled with toxins, your lotions and sunscreens may be hurting you as much as they are helping you.
By David Sirota, Creators Syndicate Election 2008: Washington's pundits and politicians have waged an ongoing propaganda campaign to pass off crazy, fringe politics as reasonable and mainstream.
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
By , Media Matters for America Media and Technology: The Beltway press has become dysfunctional, failing to see news when it happens and hyping non-stories that require no real reporting.
By , ProPublica War on Iraq: The investigative reporter who connected the dots on detention, rendition and torture, discusses her new book, The Dark Side.
By , The Tyee Environment: Composting is key to reducing waste costs, cutting global warming emissions, and increasing urban food security.
By , AlterNet Instead of having a light at the end of the tunnel, we have another train. Brace yourselves for a wreck.
By , AlterNet With its one-of-a-kind "Momentum" conference, Tides is tapping the progressive community's brightest minds to tackle the nation's biggest challenges.
By , Tomdispatch.com The current oil shock, the fourth in the past 30-plus years and the deadliest so far, shows every sign of continuing for a long, long stretch.
By Anthony Papa, AlterNet DrugReporter: Hamilton was lucky enough to be able to afford treatment and get access right away. Most people cannot afford it.
By Greta Christina, The Blowfish Blog Sex and Relationships: Cheating should never be the go-to solution. But what about as a last resort?
By Rep. Linda T. Sanchez, Huffington Post Rights and Liberties: Karl Rove ignored a Congressional subpoena last week, leaving the country rather than testify under oath. Enough is enough.
By Leonard Doyle, Independent UK War on Iraq: Can the president synonymous with a military disaster put a positive spin on McCain's Iraq plan?
By Ginna Green, Shakesville Rights and Liberties: After a decade long fight the Senate takes us one step farther from legalized discrimination.
By Marcela Howell, RH Reality Check Sex and Relationships: Our government continues to throw money at abstinence programs that don't work. It's time to hold both parties accountable.
By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate Environment: We can't let the nuclear power industry use global warming as an opportunity to sell its insanely expensive and dangerous power plants.
By Kevin Tillman, AlterNet PEEK: And I'm flying today.
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
By , Democracy Now! Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: People are desperate for solutions but instead they're handed policies that don't solve the crises, and are highly profitable for corporations.
By , AlterNet War on Iraq: Obama is serious about a withdrawal plan for Iraq, but he's committed himself to expanding the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dumb Idea.
By , RH Reality Check Reproductive Justice and Gender: The Department of Health and Human Services is dismissing medical experts and instead using a definition of pregnancy based on polling data.
By , Foreign Policy Sure, it's ruining the global economy and making everyone miserable, but there's an underappreciated upside to the high price of oil.
By , Health Beat Health and Wellness: What's more, this new plan from Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel would rein in health care inflation and insulate our health system from lobbyists.
By , The Guardian Rights and Liberties: Footage showing interrogation at detention camp released by Canadian teenager's lawyers.
By Demos, Project Vote, The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Democracy and Elections: The state failed to offer more than 1 million people the chance to register to vote.
By Robert Scheer, Truthdig Column: Greedy corporations expect government hand-outs and deregulation at the same time.
By Sarah Bates, Science Progress Water: While some are proposing a new national water commission, others have a different idea that is less talk and more action.
By Mustafa Qadri, AlterNet ForeignPolicy: Shocking video of Palestinians being lynched by four youths has shown a bright light on settler violence.
By Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog Rights and Liberties: A closer look at the first Guantánamo interrogation to be released on video reveals, above all, a "victimized and exploited" child.
By Kevin Tillman, AlterNet PEEK: Turns out I do hate America -- at least when it blows out my tires.
By Frei Betto, Latin America in Movement ForeignPolicy: The average price of food has tripled in the last twelve months. We may soon be buying our groceries from a boutique.
By Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor Rights and Liberties: When veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan bring their troubles home, police and judges often are the first to deal with them.
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
By , Ode Health and Wellness: Neurosis, hysteria, stress, nausea, and high blood pressure -- just a few of the health problems linked to noise.
By , Tomdispatch.com War on Iraq: We have become a nation of wedding crashers, the uninvited guests who arrived under false pretenses, tore up the place, offering nary an apology.
By , Women's eNews Reproductive Justice and Gender: A multi-billion-dollar wedding industry peddles the perfection myth more intensely than ever before.
By , The New York Times Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the headlines, with dire warnings of imminent collapse. How worried should we be?
By , Truthdig ForeignPolicy: Iran’s recent missile test should remove all doubt that an attack by either the United States or Israel would be a terrible mistake.
By John DeVore, The Frisky Sex and Relationships: Overgrown frat boys, cheesy pick-up artists, overly sensitive cry-babies? What's going on with straight men's sexuality?
By Graham Hill, Huffington Post Water: The toilet is the biggest water culprit in the home -- gulping down nearly one third of your total water consumption.
FAIR War on Iraq: The corporate media keeps giving McCain cover on his unpopular Iraq position.
By Kevin Tillman, AlterNet PEEK: John McCain couldn't restart the Cold War if he tried ... and apparently he will try.
By Doug George, Christian Science Monitor Water: Scientists may soon conclude that dam operations are risking the cultural heritage of the Grand Canyon.
By Faiz Shakir, The Progress Report Environment: Conservatives are preying on concern over gas prices by propagating false myths that drilling for oil off our coasts will lower the cost of gas.
By Miriam Pérez, RH Reality Check Reproductive Justice and Gender: The media give the impression women opt for c-sections for the sake of convenience. In fact, the procedure is often pushed by doctors.
By Rahmat Al-Salama, Iraq Updates War on Iraq: As the Status of Forces negotiations fall apart, a top Iraqi official says all U.S. and other forces should withdraw by 2011 at the latest.
By Edwin Okong'o, New American Media Rights and Liberties: Going through legal channels to study in America doesn't protect young people from racism.
By Gavan McCormack, Foreign Policy in Focus ForeignPolicy: "Through the prism of beef, South Koreans confront the limitations of key contemporary institutions: democracy, capitalism, and nationalism."
By Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation ForeignPolicy: With the world suspicious of American motives in world crises, U.S. policy toward Sudan and Zimbabwe is raising hackles.
By Peter Navarro, Asia Times Health and Wellness: It's tough to tout "green games" when cancers related to water pollution are among the leading causes of death in China's countryside.
Monday, July 14th, 2008
By , AlterNet ForeignPolicy: The new book Curse of the Black Gold shows how Nigeria may be the epicenter of the full-blown resource wars to come.
By , AlterNet Media and Technology: This week's New Yorker cover image of the Obamas is shocking in the racism and gross stereotyping that is built into its supposed satire.
By , Huffington Post Rights and Liberties: Videos depicting torture-training sessions with Mexican police raise alarm over human rights under Calderon's US-assisted war on crime.
By , AlterNet Election 2008: A tent for 800 journalists, bloggers and activists will be set up at Denver's Democratic Convention site.
By , AlterNet War on Iraq: As Canadian immigration officials stand poised to deport U.S. war resisters, activists and Parliament work to provide a safe haven.
By , The New York Times Rights and Liberties: Top Bush hands are starting to get sweaty about where they left their fingerprints on U.S. torture policies.
By , CounterPunch Environment: The ethanol scam shows that corporate, market-based "solutions" to global warming and oil dependence are no solution at all.
By Eoin O'Carroll, Christian Science Monitor Water: A federal jury found that local authorities were denying a black community public water service because of their race.
By Vince Farrell, Huffington Post Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: A primer on the two lenders making news this week.
By Chris Nolan, Majikthise PEEK: Lobbyist Stephen P. Payne, a new rising star of pay-to-play politics, makes Jack Abramoff look like a piker.
Marijuana Policy Project DrugReporter: "The powers that be like to play games, and Marijuana is a nice diversion." (Video)
By Deb Price, Creators Syndicate Sex and Relationships: Young activists are trying to reach out to conservative voters.
Azzaman War on Iraq: As the real American strategic interests in Iraq are laid bare, anger at the U.S. and Iraqi government is fueling the resistance.
By Kent Paterson, CorpWatch ForeignPolicy: Cruise business is booming at the expensive of the environment, local communities, their own workers, and even the safety of their customers.
By Kevin Tillman, AlterNet War on Iraq: The coordinated attack may be tied to U.S. bombing of a wedding party that killed 47.
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Middle East Online War on Iraq: Bush and his allies want the focus to be on OPEC, not the instability his foreign policy has wrought.
By Erik Camayd-Freixas, New America Media Rights and Liberties: An interpreter struggles with his conscience after a massive immigration raid in Iowa.
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
By Kelly Nuxoll, Huffington Post Reproductive Justice and Gender: And he has help from Clinton, whose post-primary season message to her supporters is: Get over it and move on. I have.
By Todd Tucker, Eyes on Trade Election 2008: With McCain for NAFTA and Obama critical of it, trade is sure to be on the minds of voters in November.
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Fidel Castro on Fidel Castro
What Does Silence Really Sound Like?
Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now
Lightning Strikes: Get Used to Catastrophic Wildfires and Worse
AlterNet's Weekly Zeitgeist: Phony Drilling, Afghan Escalation, Never-Ending Financial Crisis and Much More
Md. Police Infiltrated Groups Opposed to War and the Death Penalty
The Power of the Miniskirt
The Financial Crisis Could Shake the Foundations of American Politics
How Long Will Your Doctor Continue Accepting Private Insurance?
The Do-It-Yourself Economy
VA Ban on Voter Registration Drives for Injured Vets Becomes National Fight
Redistricting: A Shadowy Process Needs Sunlight
Memo to Obama, McCain: No One Wins in a War
Spending for Spooks: The Intelligence Budget Has Increased Dramatically
'Trans-Fats' Of The Skin Care World
'Centrists' Are Running the Asylum
Media Coverage of Obama and McCain: "Nuts" or a "Disgrace"?
The Dark Side: Jane Mayer on How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Why Our Food Waste May Be Our Greatest Asset
As Housing Implodes, U.S. Is at an Economic Tipping Point
Tides Brings Visionaries Together to Contemplate the Progressive Future
Why We Won't See Relief from the Oil Shock Any Time Soon
Reborn MLB Slugger Josh Hamilton Is One Lucky Former Drug Addict
Could Cheating Save a Relationship?
Why Karl Rove Should Go to Jail
Bush to Speed Iraq Troop Withdrawal in to Help McCain
Ban on HIV+ Visitors and Immigrants in the U.S. is One Step Closer to Being Repealed
Progressives to Confront Bad Sex-Ed Policies at 'Netroots Nation'
Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid
Pilots Pressured to Cut Costs by Cutting Down on Fuel, Safety Margins
Naomi Klein: Bush Sees Crises in Fuel, Food, Housing and Banking as Chance to Exploit Us More
Obama Wants to Shrink One War, But Expand Two Others
White House Tries to Define Contraception As Abortion
Five Reasons to Love $4 Gas 
High-Quality, Universal Health Care Is Possible -- With No Premiums or Deductibles
First Guantánamo Interrogation Video Released: Prisoner Moans 'Kill Me'
Federal Judge Orders Missouri to Register Low-Income Voters
The Real Legacy of the 'Reagan Revolution'
How We Can Save Our Country's Water
Will Israeli Settlers' Violence Finally Be Prosecuted?
"Screwed Up" and "Abused": The Interrogation of 16-Year-Old Omar Khadr
America is Coming Apart at the Seams
Food: A luxury Item?
"We're Going to Be Paying For This For a While": Soldiers Bring the War Home
Quiet, Please! How Noise Pollution Could Send You to the Hospital
The Wedding Crashers: U.S. Jets Have Bombed Five Ceremonies in Afghanistan
Why Brides-to-Be Are Starving Themselves Skinny 
Fannie, Freddie and the Threat of Economic Meltdown
Iran's Missile Test: A Clear Reminder That an Attack Would Be Disastrous
Are Men Having an Identity Crisis?
Why I Don't Flush
Deceptive Questioning in Washington Post's McCain-Friendly Poll on Iraq
If CNN Reported the Basic Facts, McCain's Craziness Would Be Obvious to All
Will Artificial Floods Help Restoration Efforts in the Grand Canyon?
The Three Biggest Myths the Bush Administration Wants You to Believe About Offshore Drilling
The Myth of the Elective C-Section
Iraq Proposes Time Frame for U.S. Withdrawal
Immigrant Students Face Harrassment, Racial Profiling on Campus
How Mad Cows and "Free Trade" Threaten Korean Democracy
The Mess in Sudan and Zimbabwe
China's Pollution Olympics
Africa: The Next Victim in Our Quest for Cheap Oil
The Bad Frame: Why Are the New Yorker, Salon and Other Liberal Media Doing the Right's Dirty Work?
U.S. Mercenary Company Implicated in Mexican Torture Videos 
Progressives Have a Big Tent at the Dem Convention
Canada's Status as a Safe Haven for War Resisters Is Under Attack
Worries About War Crimes Heat up in the White House
Corn, Incorporated: The Ethanol Scam
Black Ohio Neighborhood Denied Water for Decades
Lobbying Firm Brags About Smoothing Way for a Stolen Election
Jim Hightower on Pot -- Sharing His Thoughts on Pot, That Is
Changing Hearts and Minds on Gay Marriage
Anti-U.S. Sentiment on the Rise in Iraq
Cruising to Destruction: Why the Leisure Industry Isn't all Fun and Games
News From the Forgotten War: 100 Afghan Insurgents "Breach" U.S. Base
Is the Global Oil Crunch a Myth?
The Translator's Perspective: an Inside Account of the Biggest ICE Raid in History
Obama Gets on Topic with Women
Free Trade a Clear Wedge Issue in '08 Election